Articles in category: BoardNews

Starboard Value LP (together with its affiliates and director nominees, "Starboard"), owning securities representing beneficial ownership of approximately 7.9% of the outstanding common stock of TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. ("TriQuint" or the "Company"), today announced that it has delivered a letter to the Company's Board of Directors...

Markit Group, the 10-year-old financial information provider now worth an estimated $5 billion, is this week expected to appoint a majority-independent board for the first time in the latest sign it may pursue a public listing next year...

When China's e-commerce giant Alibaba -- with a valuation that may make it the world's third-largest Internet company behind only Google and Amazon -- made the decision to go public, listing in Hong Kong was its natural first choice...

Anne Simpson, director of corporate governance at the California Public Employees' Pension Fund, the largest United States pension plan with $279 billion in assets, says “board coups” this year that led to the departure of directors at Hewlett-Packard ...

Investors who closely followed the actions of activist shareholder Carl Icahn in 20 companies over a five-year period would have reaped an annualized return of 28 percent, a study by his investment firm showed Tuesday...

A judge has ruled that Hewlett-Packard and its CEO, Meg Whitman, must mount a defense against a shareholder class action lawsuit claiming that Whitman and HP made misleading statements about the acquisition of Autonomy...

The discount retailer had recently rebuffed takeover efforts by a smaller rival, Jos. A. Bank, arguing that the timing was opportunistic and the offer insufficient. But it turns out Men’s Wearhouse is interested in doing a deal after all. It just wants to be the one writing the check...

“As activist hedge funds continue to get more of their preferred candidates on the boards of companies, some of the hedge funds are angling for certain directors to be paid twice: once by the company, and once by the hedge funds that supported their candidacy,” DealBook’s David Gelles reports.

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CommonWealth REIT (NYSE: CWH) today issued the following statement in response to the notice by Corvex Management LP and Related Fund Management, LLC (“Corvex/Related”) of their intention to undertake a new consent solicitation following the Arbitration Panel’s ruling last week that Corvex/Related’s earlier consent solicitation was invalid: We are disappointed ...

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. -- RCM Technologies, Inc. , a premier provider of business and technology solutions designed to enhance and maximize the operational performance of its customers through the adaptation ...

In the aftermath of the financial crisis institutional shareholders are amping up engagements with company directors and executives on the pledging of company stock. On the agenda is pledging policy and whether the practice of pledging should be prohibited outright—similar to how hedging is now largely treated by the vast majority of companies...

Gregory is widely recognized for her governance work, including most recently as: the best in
Corporate Governance
at Euromoney Legal Media Group's inaugural Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2012; the leading practitioner in
corporate
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